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Originally Posted by Sihastru
Intel Xeon E7450 Dunnington is a "true" six-core design. Xeon 7400 CPUs fit in the same Caneland platforms as older quad-core/four-socket Xeon 7300s, so they're little more than drop-in upgrades in some cases. Server makers should be able to fit as many as 16 Xeons 7400s in a single system, for a total of 96 processing cores with as much as 256GB of memory.
http://techreport.com/r.x/2008q3/dunnington_small.jpg
It is also at least half-year old, so AMD is very late to the party with their Istambuls. |
look at the pic you posted it has 3 banks of 45nm cores now go look at the AMD design
www.nordichardware.com/news,7725.html
istanbul is a true 6 core design while the intel version is a bunch of dual cores grouped together that talk accross the FSB. the size and number of cores possible in the system dont really matter to what i said so i do not know why you brought it up... and the 8 series istanbul chips will allow the same thing from AMD.